Dicuil (redirect from De mensura orbis terrae)
De mensura Orbis terrae, a summary of geography, giving concise information about various lands. This work was based upon a Mensuratio orbis prepared by...
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Speculum Orbis Terrae ("Mirror of the World") was an atlas published by Cornelis de Jode in Antwerp in 1593. The atlas was largely a continuation of unfinished...
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flora and fauna. Part of a map in Cornelis de Jode's 1593 atlas Speculum Orbis Terrae depicts New Guinea and a hypothetical land to the south inhabited by...
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Mercator 1569 world map (redirect from Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata)
The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata (Renaissance Latin for "New and...
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this interpretation, Rabelais was following Guillaume Postel in his De orbis terrae concordia. The nineteenth-century visionary Anne Catherine Emmerich,...
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T/O (disambiguation) Telephone operator (disambiguation) T and O map (orbis terrae), a type of medieval world map This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Abul-Abbas in his description of India in his geographic work De mensura orbis terrae ("Concerning the Measurement of the World") in 825. An inhabited initial...
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of very similar character to the Faroe Islands in his work De mensura orbis terrae ("Of the measure of the worlds of the earth"). In this text, Dicuil describes...
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Equator to the poles, where it becomes infinite. The title (Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigatium Emendate: "new and augmented description...
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printed in eighteen separate sheets. Mercator titled the map Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendata: "A new and augmented description...
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